August 30, 2007
Floating Pool to Seek New Shores
According to the Post, the Parks Department has confirmed that the "Floating Pool Lady" will be towed to another borough next summer.
About 70,000 swimmers will have enjoyed the barge-borne pool on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront by the time it closes on Labor Day. Having opened during the rainstorms of July 4, it became a popular attraction reminiscent of the Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City. Its creator also sees it as a revival of the city's 19th-Century public swimming baths, minus the Victorian full-body beach garb. We do wonder if part of the reason the pool may move is because some Brooklyn residents didn't want it in their backyard.
Anyone out there have the inside word on which neighborhood gets the barge next summer?
More:
Gothamist: Yes, the Floating Pool has a Beach
Gothamist: Floating Pool Update: Tilted Barge, Pool Closed For Now
Photos via Flickr by Surgery
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Heard word from a friend who frequents the floating pool that it will be moving to the Bronx next year. But that is not confirmed.
Daily News reports it is moving to the bronx as well. http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/brooklyn/2007/08/30/2007-08-30_next_stop_for_brooklyn_pool_bronx.html
The pool was originally supposed to be located in the South Bronx this year, but ended up in Brooklyn Bridge Park because they are trying to show that they are using the waterfront for public use, to justify the big condo next door. It would only make sense for it to be located there next season.
WTF is that thing coming out of the pool in the picture?
Do they screen for pedophiles and lowlifes in general...?
I love that pool. I'll be sad to see it go. It was very clean and not crowded (I went during the week). I think anyone who was against the pool being in the neighborhood never actually went to it. I heard some older neighborhood ladies talking crap about it on my way. They said something about homeless people swimming there which is obviously not the case at all!
This is not a NIMBY response at all. Plan all along was to rotate the floating pool around the city.
here's an idea. how about 5 floating barge pools for all boroughs?
comment #4: it's your mom coming out of the pool, which is the reason why i will not frequent this hepatitis bath. not to mention, i pinched a loaf in the pool last week.
Readers of The Brooklyn Paper are well aware that the pool will probably end up in the Bronx next year.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/28/30_28floatingpool.html
GERSH
The plan is for the pool to rotate to a new borough every year. I live in Chelsea and would love to see it docked off the West Side Highway!
But that probably won't happen.
Now were am i going to get to pee in front of everyone?
After a season adjacent to a notably upscale community, it would be politically astute to make its next anchorage a neighborhood utterly devoid of multi-million-dollar townhouses. After all, the Victorian-era barges which inspired this project were intended exclusively for working-class neighborhoods.
I once joined a local history project on the East Side that included people with personal memories of jumping off docks to swin in the East River. The principal hazard, then as now, is the current, which varies with the tides, but can endanger all but the strongest swimmers.